The island of Corsica was officially considered to be affiliated to the pre-unified Italian world on multiple levels (linguistic, geographical, ethnical, historical, etc.) until when it was ceded to France by the Genoese Republic in 1768, about a century before the formal Italian unification. The island would continue to evolve with and within the Italian world until the language transition from Italian to French was fully complete which would not happen until the early 20^th century.

On the one hand, the islanders oscillate between the original contiguity of their cultures and a remaining natural ability to intercommunicate; on the other hand, over the years of separation their evolution took different paths, which resulted in the rupture of the linguistic and cultural continuum. Even though many antagonisms developed after a century of majorly Gallicized linguistic and cultural influence which resulted in the developement of Corsicaness and was fullfilled by the acceptance of Corsican as a language, Corsica retains undeniably visible links and similarities with Italy.

In this article, I will discuss the effects of a (dis)unity that reaches outside of the Italian borders. The historical evolution and disruption of the linguistic continuum on Corsica, sets a frame of reference for the conceptualization of the links that currently unite Corsican and Italy. This leads to highlighting aspects of the contemporary social, cultural and linguistic relationships, or lack of relationships, between the island and the peninsula.

I propose to look at the Italian influences on Corsica to define the level of “italianess” of the islanders in a sociolinguistic and socio-cultural approach to near languages and near cultures, in order to define Corsica’s ‘Disunity’ from and ‘Unity’ with Italy.

The paper examines the 1947 monetary stabilization in Italy, tracing the domestic and international political dynamics that allowed ideas and theoretical concepts developed within the Bank of Italy to be applied in a successful action to subdue spiraling inflation. The combination of events and circumstances necessary for the good outcome in a critical juncture of Italian economic history was the fruit of the efforts made by Prime Minister Alcide De Gasperi in both the domestic and international political arenas and of the collaboration he received from Luigi Einaudi and Donato Menichella. The Government’s economic action in this crucial episode constitutes perhaps the first outstanding example of cooperation between politicians and experts in the annals of the Italian Republic.

In this paper we explain the main reason in favour and against of the mortgage harmonization in EU through the Eurohypothec as a model of a common mortgage for Europe.

In this study we will present a full biophysical characterization of the NFκB-IκBα tertiary complex with a focus on intrinsically disordered regions. The identification of the intrinsically disordered N-terminus domain of IκBα exhibits protection occurring at the side chain interface, but not at the backbone interface. This protection occurs at regions near IκBα’s phosphorylation sites S32 and S36. Here we will present hydrogen deuterium mass spectrometry, fast photochemical oxidation of proteins coupled with mass spectrometry and in silico frustration calculations to support our claims.

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this qualitative study was to learn from the perspectives of adult secondary learners (ASLs) and transition navigators (TNs) regarding how K–12 adult education programs serve ASLs as they prepare to transition to community college. In this study, ASLs are defined as adult students working towards their high school diploma or equivalency while balancing adult responsibilities and social, psychological, and economic roles expected of adults in their communities. TNs are institutional agents who assist students with enrollment, goal setting, career planning, and transitions to college, training, and employment. Purposeful sampling was used to select six ASLs and four TNs to participate in this study. In-depth one-on-one ASL interviews and focus group data with TNs revealed findings in four key categories: (1) ASLs exhibited agency over their educational trajectory, empowered by family, community, and peers. (2) Teachers supported ASLs by building confidence, meeting learning needs, and validating experiences. (3) Peer and community connections empowered ASLs to persist toward goals. (4) While ASLs found college transition support through adult education, they offered additional ideas to enhance preparation. Findings provide insight into how adult education programs can better support ASLs in preparing to transition to community college. This study provides insight and aims to inform adult education leaders, programming, and policies to improve outcomes for this unique population of learners.

This Dissertation investigated the interplay between executive function, creative thinking, and examples. Over 200 participants completed this experiment consisting of a battery of five creative thinking tasks and a battery of seven executive function tasks. All participants completed two different versions of each of the creative thinking tasks, one version with the help of examples to get them started on idea generation and one version without the help of examples. Data were analyzed both as latent and observed variables.

Key results indicated that: (1) participants generated ideas that were rated as more creative when they had the help of examples than when they did not have examples; (2) executive function (particularly inhibition) was positively related to creativity in both conditions; (3) the role of executive function was not observed to depend on whether examples were involved in the idea generation process; and (4) conformity to examples was not observed to mediate the relation between executive function and creativity.